Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1906 — 80 BOOKS AGAINST SMOOT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

80 BOOKS AGAINST SMOOT.

Names Aaklnjr Mormon Senator’s Removal Fill Many Volumes. Eighty volumes containing the signatures of American women who desire to see Reed Smoot of Utah ousted

from the YTfifted States Senate have been sent to WashIngton. Six months a,?o the National League of Women’s Organizations sent nn appeal to every State asking women to sign a memorial to the Senate asking the expulsion of Sen-

ator Smoot on the ground that he pledged his first allegiance to the Mormon hierarchy, thus setting It above the United States government. The question of polygamy w;is not raised. The eighty volumes are to be distributed among the Senators, and the protest they represent will “be presented by Senator Burrows of Michigan. Then each Senator will present the signatures from his State. The names of New York women fill seven volumes, of Pennsylvania six volumes, of Ohio four, of lowa three, of Illinois three, and of other States from one to three. All the Western and Southern States sent loug lists of names, except Utah, where only 478 signatures were secured.

REED SMOOT.